chit at work
An AI note taker for code enforcement officers
Who carries it: Code inspector
An inspection narrated on site beats one reconstructed at the desk. An AI note taker for building inspectors captures your narration, contractor conversations, and violation notices as you work — by evening the reports are drafted, code sections and corrections are logged by address, and reinspections are queued.
Public records start as field conversations.
When a code inspector presses it
- Inspection narration
- contractor conversations
- violation notices
“City building inspector; log code sections, violations, and corrections by address.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Inspection reports drafted; reinspections queued.
Inspection narration by address, with audio and transcripts resident in the department's own VPC.
Government data sovereignty: audio and transcripts resident in the department's own VPC.
Code section, address, correction
A code enforcement officer's day is a sequence of addresses and a set of very specific facts about each: the section cited, the violation observed, the correction ordered, what the contractor said in response. It is written up later, from a clipboard, under a volume of cases that makes accuracy a real problem. Narrate at the address — case, section, what you saw, what you told them. The report drafts that evening and the reinspections queue. Documentation completeness is the department metric that actually matters, and it is a function of how much time passed between seeing something and writing it down. Government deployments keep audio and transcripts resident in the department's own VPC.
See the app work
Good questions
Can I dictate code sections and violations as I walk?
Yes. Hold the button and narrate — "305.1, missing handrail, north stair" — and it's transcribed and searchable by address later. No typing in the truck between stops.
Does it work in basements and mechanical rooms with no signal?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs when you're back on a network, and the battery runs about a month of typical use.
Our recordings could be public records — where does the data live?
Government deployments keep audio and transcripts resident in your own environment, not a vendor's cloud. Ask us about deployment at hichit.com/enterprise.
How many inspections a day can it keep up with?
Transcription is unlimited on the $9/month membership, so a twelve-stop day costs the same as a two-stop day. Reinspections surface in the evening digest instead of on a sticky note.
Will contractors know when they're being recorded?
chit records only while the button is visibly held — no wake word, no always-on mic. That makes the conversation easy to disclose, and gives a violation notice a time-stamped record.
Recording laws differ by state, and several require every party's consent. chit only captures while the button is held — know your state's rule before recording another person.
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